Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
Perhaps all human interaction is about wanting and getting.
David Mitchell
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
David Mitchell
Age: 55
Born: 1969
Born: January 12
Actor
Composer
Linguist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Text Writer
Translator
Writer
Clarkfield
Minnesota
David Stephen Mitchell
David Henry Mitchell
Getting
Human
Humans
Interaction
Wanting
Perhaps
More quotes by David Mitchell
Try this for deviancy: fabricants are mirrors held up to purebloods' conscience what purebloods see reflected there sickens them. So they blame you for holding the mirror. I hid my shock by asking when purebloods might blame themselves. Mephi replied, History suggests, not until they are made to.
David Mitchell
Birdsong foamed in the hour-before-dawn garden.
David Mitchell
What do I miss? Second-hand bookshops where I can find things I had no idea I wanted. AbeBooks helps, but it doesn't have that smell.
David Mitchell
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
David Mitchell
A mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't. It ain't so pretty.
David Mitchell
Probably is a word with an emergency ejector seat.
David Mitchell
over 85% of all statistics are made up on the spot.
David Mitchell
But you have read Madame Bovary?' (I'd never heard of her books.) 'No.
David Mitchell
Have you noticed, said John, how countries call theirs 'sovereign nuclear deterrents,' but call the other countries' ones 'weapons of mass destruction'?
David Mitchell
These jokes the world plays, they're not funny at all.
David Mitchell
The mind abhors a vacancy & is wont to people it with phantoms.
David Mitchell
- This isn't an interrogation or a trail. Your version of the truth is the only thing that matters. -Truth is singular. It's 'versions' are mistruths.
David Mitchell
As many truths as men. Occasionally, I glimpse a truer Truth, hiding in imperfect simulacrums of itself, but as I approach, it bestirs itself & moves deeper into the thorny swamp of dissent.
David Mitchell
We are both busy people, so let's cut the small talk.
David Mitchell
I wonder if you encountered this dictum first spoken by a twentieth-century statesman: An abyss cannot be crossed in two steps.
David Mitchell
How vulgar, this hankering after immortality, how vain, how false. Composers are merely scribblers of cave paintings. One writes music because winter is eternal and because, if one didn't, the wolves and blizzards would be at one's throat all the sooner.
David Mitchell
The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.
David Mitchell
Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' it for the first time.
David Mitchell
maybe the meaning of life lies in looking for it
David Mitchell
Lunatics are writers whose works write them.
David Mitchell
